Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

We, and the Minister, in particular, should not undermine confidence in local planners by issuing further guidelines. These people are charged at local authority level with bringing forward and implementing the local authority members' plan. The issuing of guidelines suggests there is a difficulty. The local planners have a difficult task and we, as local authority members, support them and want to ensure the Minister does not undermine them. Many of the insinuations in the Minister's address clearly question their effectiveness.